From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 4 23:44:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26218 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26213 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi (root@kanto.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA18518 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 23:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kallio@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id JAA17733; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:35:05 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:35:04 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hackers-digest@freebsd.org, Jake Hamby Subject: Re: hackers-digest V1 #1436 In-Reply-To: <199609040312.UAA17647@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Good point. I much prefer BSD's boot procedure in terms of flexibility, > and since it's been around for so long, the kernel is fairly well > understood in terms of adding devices. That's why we only need one boot > disk (and "boot -v" will allow device driver parameters to be editing for > things that don't autoprobe correctly) vs. a ton of Linux boot disks, each > tweaked for slightly different configurations. I think that is not true. Linux RedHat has only one boot disk, with it you can install using nfs, ftp, cdrom (ide also) etc. Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi Computing Center Fax +358-14-603611 U of Jyväskylä 62.14N 25.44E Phone +358-14-603606 PL 35, 40351 Jyväskylä, Finland http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio